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Originally Posted by teh603
So would this have something to do with why all the interesting sci- fi and fantasy books are branded as "young adult," and the adults' section is full of litfic?
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It could be. The Silmarillion is not a difficult book, but it certainly is not easy either. Some other books I thought easy and expected to end up somewhere in the higher 80's, had an unexpectedly low (=difficult) score. The Sword of Shannara is one of those. It scored 77, and is one of the more "difficult" books in my library
Some of the Dungeons and Dragons / Forgotten Realms stuff that I read as a break from "serious" (ahum) Fantasy actually scored in the low 80's rather often. The "serious" Fantasy often was in the higher 80's with George R.R. Martin (who is generally considered to be "serious stuff") scoring 98.1. (Almost a clean hundred. What would that mean? Easily understood by mentally handicapped people?)
Summarized, my entire library as it is at this point can be understood by 15 year olds, with a large part being easily readable for an under 11 year old. Thereore I must go look for some much more difficult books, or this FRE is useless.
I think it's the second, because there are books in there that I *know* will make a 15 year old cry if they had to read them. I've deleted the FRE-column from the database.